0 present participle of nobble --
1 to make something fail, especially to make a horse in a race fail by giving it drugs --
2 to persuade someone to do what you want them to do, especially by using money or threats: --
3 to intentionally catch the attention of someone so that you can talk to them: --
The administration of criminal justice has been under greater strain and there has been more jury nobbling.
A large part of the so-called "nobbling" can fall into that class.
The second reason is that there has grown up since 1974 a very dramatic increase in the amount of jury nobbling.
I want to finish on the question of jury nobbling.
Secondly, we shall have done something marginal about interference with juries, or jury nobbling.
It is impossible to say how prevalent "nobbling" is.
There has been some very thin evidence of nobbling of and getting at jurors.
There is the confidence in the court system and the jury nobbling, not by paramilitary groupings but by the legal process itself.